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"These final days of his San Francisco friends and lovers, gay and straight, are seriously moving. . . . Maupin deftly illustrates how far America and the pioneering Anna have come, and nearly forty years into the series, his writing remains wildly addictive but is deeper and richer."—People
By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Armistead Maupin's bestselling Tales of the City novels—books 7, 8 and 9 collected
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Tales of the city volume 9
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Now a fragile ninety-two years old and committed to the notion of "leaving like a lady," Anna Madrigal has seemingly found peace in the bosom of her "logical family" in San Francisco : her devoted young caretaker, Jake Greenleaf ; her former tenant Brian Hawkins ; Brian's daughter Shawna ; and Michael Tolliver and Mary Ann Singleton, who have known and loved Anna for nearly four decades. Some members of Anna's family are bound for the otherworldly...
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Tales of the city volume 1
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A naive young secretary forsakes Cleveland for San Francisco, tumbling headlong into a brave new world of laundromat lotharios and cutthroat debutantes.
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Tales of the city volume 7
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Reaching his mid-fifties in San Francisco, gay gardener Michael Tolliver cherishes his life after losing many of his friends and lovers to AIDS, finds romance with a younger partner, and attends to his dying fundamentalist mother in Florida.
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Tales of the city volume 8
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Twenty years have passed since Mary Ann Singleton left her husband and child in San Francisco to pursue her dream of a television career in New York. Now a pair of personal calamities has driven her back to the city of her youth and into the arms of her oldest friend, Michael "Mouse" Tolliver, a gardener happily ensconced with his much-younger husband.
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